FACT CHECK: Russia Denies Similarities Between its Ukraine Invasion, Nazi Germany's Norway Invasion

On March 9, Russia's Foreign Ministry condemned U.S. Ambassador to Norway Marc Nathanson for comparing Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in 2022 to Germany’s invasion of Norway in 1940.

Nathanson made his comments on March 1 at the Kirkenes Conference, an international conference on cooperation in the Barents Region held annually in northern Norway. He said:

“Putin’s unprovoked invasion of Ukraine a year and seven days ago reminds me of another event in world history. On April 9, 1940, Hitler launched an unprovoked invasion of Norway 82 years ago.”

Russian Foreign Ministry Maria Zakharova spokeswoman responded:

"He made absolutely abominable and insulting remarks about Russia and the leadership of our country on the sidelines of the Kirkenes Conference, comparing Russia's special military operation in Ukraine with … ‘Hitler's invasion of Norway in 1940’. … This was an example of more than just political arrogance, extreme ignorance, and blasphemy.”

Zakharova is wrong: both the 1940 invasion of Norway by Hitler’s Germany and the 2022 invasion of Ukraine by Putin’s Russia were acts of unprovoked aggression against sovereign states.

https://www.polygraph.info/a/fact-check-russia-s-false-denial-of-similarities-between-putin-s-attack-on-ukraine-and-the-attack-on-norway-by-nazi-germany-/7002628.html

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